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Again, Lagos task force raids Ladipo market, clears shanties

By Eniola Daniel
22 August 2022   |   2:38 am
Three months after, Lagos State Environment and Special Offences Enforcement Unit (Task Force), led by Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), Shola Jejeloye, yesterday returned to clear vehicles

Task force officials at work… yesterday: PHOTO: ENIOLA DANIEL<br />

Police parade telecom mast vandal recovers solar batteries 

Three months after, Lagos State Environment and Special Offences Enforcement Unit (Task Force), led by Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), Shola Jejeloye, yesterday returned to clear vehicles parked within Toyota Bus Stop and environs and destroyed makeshift shops.

 
The agency also towed vehicles parked indiscriminately along the axis during the exercise that started at about 7:00 a.m. and ended at about 1:00.p.m.
   
It also carted away vehicle parts, engines, iron parts, drinks, cooking gas and other items parked by the roadside.
 
The agency said it was acting on the order of the Federal Ministry of Environment, stressing that the exercise was government’s response to reports of indiscriminate parking of vehicles and conversion of the expressway and service lane to mechanics’ workshops and makeshift shops.
 
 
Reacting to the exercise, Secretary, Ladipo Amalgamated Automobile Spare Parts Market Association, Onyeka Igwe said: “We have told them not to park on the road, but you know, leading people is a difficult task. We instructed them not to park vehicles illegally, but they are still doing it.
 
“If the task force came and towed their vehicles, they would have to bear the consequence. The solution is for them to comply with the directive.”

MEANWHILE, the Lagos State Police Command, yesterday, paraded 35-year-old Emmanuel Aaron,  who was arrested by Meiran police division for vandalising a telecommunication mast in the Isoto area of Meiran, Lagos.

   
The suspect, who was arrested on Wednesday, August 17 at about 3:05 a.m., in response to a distress call about the presence of vandals at the mast, was found with twelve solar batteries already loaded in their operational bus, a Ford with registration number FKJ 519 YF.
   
According to the Command’s spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, his conspirators took to their heels upon sighting the policemen and said an investigation is ongoing to arrest the fleeing suspects.
   
He said the suspects would be arraigned at the conclusion of investigations, while
 
The State Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alabi,  has commended residents for always promptly alerting authorities of suspicious persons/happenings, assuring them that the Command would not relent in its resolve to continually make the state safe for everyone.

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